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Hi, my name is Meredith Grey and I'm from Seattle Grace Hospital. I started off as just an intern there wanting to work my way up to something bigger and better, but I knew I had more to learn and to practice so I had to start out small. I worked as an intern for awhile and then I eventually became a resident which means that I did receive my medical degree. I even got my own interns when I became a resident, but I still wanted to better myself and have a higher up position so I became an attending. That means I completed my residency and practice medicine in a hospital (Seattle Grace).
I am one of the leading doctors at the hospital I work at and my mother, Ellis Grey was also a very widely known doctor for her work. She unfortunately died when I was nearing the end of my interning year at Seattle Grace. So even from the start, I was already respected by others. I have been working at Seattle Grace for quite awhile, and I love it here. I love working with patients and being able to help people whether it's medically, physically, and even sometimes patients want my help personally/emotionally. They ask me what to do in their situations and about family problems and the list goes on. I get some very interesting people who come and go here, but it makes my days here all the better and even when days are so stressful it reminds me of why I love my job. I don't get to cure and save everyone, but when I do, the feeling it gives me is awesome. Some might say I'm smart, hardworking, sometimes too passionate about how I feel, and even terrible at making decisions. But that doesn't effect the way I view my patients. I see them as humans, who have emotions and who need my help. So I am always willing to give.
This is Seattle Grace Hospital where started out and do all of my surgeries.
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This is me doing my very first brain surgery on my own.
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This picture is when Dr. Sheperd and I found out how to treat patients
with inoperable brain tumors. Although it is called the Sheperd Method,
I found the initial idea of how to go about surgically making these tumors
a success.
Below is where you can find out more about the Sheperd Method:
"Educational Psychology" by Anita Woolfolk: Chapter 7 page 246-248. (Explains psychology of behaviors such like mine)
Applications to Psychology
Parenting Styles-
My mother, Ellis, was very important to me. She is who I learned from and who I took after. She inspired me to be a surgeon. She took me to work with her all the time and was the one who got me my very own anatomy jane doll when I was really young. Although she was an inspiration in my career life, as an actual parent things were much different. She was so focused on her job and her relationships. She got married to my dad, but was cheating on him with my now boss and Chief of Surgery, Dr. Weber. So I would label my mom as an authoritarian parent. This parenting style is defined as: (low warmth, high control) seem cold and controlling in their interactions with their children. The children are expected to be mature and to do what the parent says, "Because I said so!" There is not much talk about emotions. Punishments are strict, but not abusive. The parents love their children, but they are not openly affectionate.
Which style do you think is best?
Authoritative Parents (high warmth, high control): set clear limits, enforce rules, and expect mature behavior. But they are warm with their children. They listen to concerns, give reasons for rules, and allow more democratic decision making. There is less strict punishment and more guidance. Parents help children think through the consequences of their actions.
Authoritarian Parents(low warmth, high control): seem cold and controlling in their interactions with their children. The children are expected to be mature and to do what the parent says, "Because I said so!" There is not much talk about emotions. Punishments are strict, but not abusive. The parents love their children, but they are not openly affectionate.
Permissive Parents (high warmth, low control): are warm and nurturing, but they have few rules or consequences for their children and expect little in the way of mature behavior because "They're just kids."
Rejecting/Neglecting/Uninvolved Parents (low warmth, low control): don't seem to care at all and can't be bothered with controlling, communicating, or teaching their children.
Self-esteem/Self-concept and Academic Performance: Med school was really hard and to top it off, being a Grey, it was automatically expected of me that I would perform very well even as an intern. Everyone thought I would be the best out of all of the interns when I started at the hospital because my mother paved that road for me from the get go. She was highly thought upon, so all of the doctors thought highly of me as well. This put a lot of pressure on me and my self-esteem would come to very low points at times when I seemed to fail the people who thought so highly of me. It really affected my career sometimes, which leads me to the point of poor performing and gifted students. When a kid is known for "just being smart" and "always studying" and "getting straight A's" there is an automatic expectation from everyone.
Think back to when you were in high school and identify a "really smart kid" and reflect on how that expectation of them to just be good in school and that amount of pressure may show throughout their academic performance. Do you think those expectations could affect their academic performance?
Teachers & Child Abuse:
As a doctor, I am faced with very hard, emotional situations. I remember when I was a resident and a man was brought in because he got shot in his stomach. The mother and the daughter were both there waiting for him and while I was talking to both of them, I saw bruises all over the mom. I asked her where they came from and she said she had tripped and fell. She seemed a bit too nervous when I started asking questions, so I examined her and her daughter both. When I got to her daughter, she was about 8 years old and I asked her who shot her dad, and she said "Me." It came as a surprise, so I started asking more questions and got the police to come listen while I was asking her these questions. She explained that she shot him because she didn't want him to "hurt me and mommy anymore." So I knew that there was a case of abuse going on in that family. The police took it into their hands and the mother did leave him and took the girl with her.
So that leads me to teachers and child abuse. Every year, about 3,000,000 cases of abuse and neglected are reported and 900,000 are confirmed (pg 85). At least 4 children die of abuse each day in the U.S. A child is abused/neglected every 35 seconds. Signs of an abused child are more likely to be aggressive in the classroom and are retained in grades. They are referred for special educations service more often than children who are not abused.
As future teachers, what would your initial instinct be to do if you found out one of your students was being abused?
Your duty as a teacher is to alert your principal, school psychologist, or school social worker. You are not permitted to handle it yourself. The law requires certain professionals including teachers, to report suspected cases of abuse. You must be sure that you understand what abuse/neglect is defined as in your state and the steps you are supposed to take according to laws in your state.
Hi, my name is Meredith Grey and I'm from Seattle Grace Hospital. I started off as just an intern there wanting to work my way up to something bigger and better, but I knew I had more to learn and to practice so I had to start out small. I worked as an intern for awhile and then I eventually became a resident which means that I did receive my medical degree. I even got my own interns when I became a resident, but I still wanted to better myself and have a higher up position so I became an attending. That means I completed my residency and practice medicine in a hospital (Seattle Grace).
I am one of the leading doctors at the hospital I work at and my mother, Ellis Grey was also a very widely known doctor for her work. She unfortunately died when I was nearing the end of my interning year at Seattle Grace. So even from the start, I was already respected by others. I have been working at Seattle Grace for quite awhile, and I love it here. I love working with patients and being able to help people whether it's medically, physically, and even sometimes patients want my help personally/emotionally. They ask me what to do in their situations and about family problems and the list goes on. I get some very interesting people who come and go here, but it makes my days here all the better and even when days are so stressful it reminds me of why I love my job. I don't get to cure and save everyone, but when I do, the feeling it gives me is awesome. Some might say I'm smart, hardworking, sometimes too passionate about how I feel, and even terrible at making decisions. But that doesn't effect the way I view my patients. I see them as humans, who have emotions and who need my help. So I am always willing to give.
This is Seattle Grace Hospital where started out and do all of my surgeries.
This is me doing my very first brain surgery on my own.
The links below are biographies of me and how you can get to know more about my work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Grey
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0021666/bio
Words that describe me:
http://www.tagxedo.com/artful/27669c0e955b430e
This picture is when Dr. Sheperd and I found out how to treat patients
with inoperable brain tumors. Although it is called the Sheperd Method,
I found the initial idea of how to go about surgically making these tumors
a success.
Below is where you can find out more about the Sheperd Method:
http://greysanatomy.wikia.com/wiki/The_Shepherd_Method
References if there is more you would like to know about me:
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=3&sid=646a311f-5a65-4e06-9835-cedad89e1c5a%40sessionmgr4002&hid=4204&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=65971582
http://www.meredith-and-derek.com/bios/meredith
http://www.tvfanatic.com/characters/meredith-grey.html
http://personalitypsych2011.wikispaces.com/Meredith+Grey
"Educational Psychology" by Anita Woolfolk: Chapter 7 page 246-248. (Explains psychology of behaviors such like mine)
Applications to Psychology
Parenting Styles-
My mother, Ellis, was very important to me. She is who I learned from and who I took after. She inspired me to be a surgeon. She took me to work with her all the time and was the one who got me my very own anatomy jane doll when I was really young. Although she was an inspiration in my career life, as an actual parent things were much different. She was so focused on her job and her relationships. She got married to my dad, but was cheating on him with my now boss and Chief of Surgery, Dr. Weber. So I would label my mom as an authoritarian parent. This parenting style is defined as: (low warmth, high control) seem cold and controlling in their interactions with their children. The children are expected to be mature and to do what the parent says, "Because I said so!" There is not much talk about emotions. Punishments are strict, but not abusive. The parents love their children, but they are not openly affectionate.
Which style do you think is best?
Authoritative Parents (high warmth, high control): set clear limits, enforce rules, and expect mature behavior. But they are warm with their children. They listen to concerns, give reasons for rules, and allow more democratic decision making. There is less strict punishment and more guidance. Parents help children think through the consequences of their actions.
Authoritarian Parents (low warmth, high control): seem cold and controlling in their interactions with their children. The children are expected to be mature and to do what the parent says, "Because I said so!" There is not much talk about emotions. Punishments are strict, but not abusive. The parents love their children, but they are not openly affectionate.
Permissive Parents (high warmth, low control): are warm and nurturing, but they have few rules or consequences for their children and expect little in the way of mature behavior because "They're just kids."
Rejecting/Neglecting/Uninvolved Parents (low warmth, low control): don't seem to care at all and can't be bothered with controlling, communicating, or teaching their children.
Self-esteem/Self-concept and Academic Performance:
Med school was really hard and to top it off, being a Grey, it was automatically expected of me that I would perform very well even as an intern. Everyone thought I would be the best out of all of the interns when I started at the hospital because my mother paved that road for me from the get go. She was highly thought upon, so all of the doctors thought highly of me as well. This put a lot of pressure on me and my self-esteem would come to very low points at times when I seemed to fail the people who thought so highly of me. It really affected my career sometimes, which leads me to the point of poor performing and gifted students. When a kid is known for "just being smart" and "always studying" and "getting straight A's" there is an automatic expectation from everyone.
Think back to when you were in high school and identify a "really smart kid" and reflect on how that expectation of them to just be good in school and that amount of pressure may show throughout their academic performance. Do you think those expectations could affect their academic performance?
Teachers & Child Abuse:
As a doctor, I am faced with very hard, emotional situations. I remember when I was a resident and a man was brought in because he got shot in his stomach. The mother and the daughter were both there waiting for him and while I was talking to both of them, I saw bruises all over the mom. I asked her where they came from and she said she had tripped and fell. She seemed a bit too nervous when I started asking questions, so I examined her and her daughter both. When I got to her daughter, she was about 8 years old and I asked her who shot her dad, and she said "Me." It came as a surprise, so I started asking more questions and got the police to come listen while I was asking her these questions. She explained that she shot him because she didn't want him to "hurt me and mommy anymore." So I knew that there was a case of abuse going on in that family. The police took it into their hands and the mother did leave him and took the girl with her.
So that leads me to teachers and child abuse. Every year, about 3,000,000 cases of abuse and neglected are reported and 900,000 are confirmed (pg 85). At least 4 children die of abuse each day in the U.S. A child is abused/neglected every 35 seconds. Signs of an abused child are more likely to be aggressive in the classroom and are retained in grades. They are referred for special educations service more often than children who are not abused.
As future teachers, what would your initial instinct be to do if you found out one of your students was being abused?
Your duty as a teacher is to alert your principal, school psychologist, or school social worker. You are not permitted to handle it yourself. The law requires certain professionals including teachers, to report suspected cases of abuse. You must be sure that you understand what abuse/neglect is defined as in your state and the steps you are supposed to take according to laws in your state.